Social Victorians/1887-02-19 Duchess of Bedford Reception

Reception Hosted by Elizabeth Russell, Duchess of Bedford

Logistics

• 1887 February 19, Saturday
• Eaton Square, the London residence of the Duke and Duchess of Beford
• Hosts: Elizabeth Sackville-West Russell, Duchess of Bedford

Who Was Present

1. the Italian Ambassador
2. the Persian Minister and Princess Malcom Khan
3. the Portuguese Minister and Madame d'Antas
4. the United States Minister and Mrs. Phelps
5. Baroness Solvyna
6. Baron Plessen
7. General Boutourline
8. Count d'Aubigny
9. M. and Madame de Zulueta
10. Count and Countess de Florian
11. Vicomte St. Genya
12. M. René David
13. Mr. Henry White
14. Mr. C. P. Phelps
15. M. de la Chaussés
16. the Marquis and Marchioness of Tavistock
17. the Marchioness of Salisbury and Lady Gwendolen Cecil
18. Earl Granville and Lady Victoria Leveson Gower
19. Earl and Countess De-La-Warr
20. Earl and Countess Waldegrave
21. Earl Bathurst
22. the Earl of Arran and Lady Alice Gore
23. the Dowager Countess of Arran and Lady Mary Gore
24. Julia Countess of Jersey and Mr. Brandling
25. Viscount Bury
26. Viscount and Viscountess Newark
27. Viscountess Hood and Hon. Mabel Hood
28. Lord and Lady Balfour of Burleigh
29. Lord and Lady Esher
30. Lord and Lady Arthur Russell and Miss Russell
31. Lord Sudeley and Hon. Eva Hanbury Tracy
32. Lord Sherborne
33. Lord Foley
34. Lord Charles Bruce
35. Lady Ulrica Thynne and Misses Thynne and Lady Helen Blackwood
36. Lady Egerton of Tatton and Lady Charlotte Amherst
37. Hon. Lady Campbell
38. Lord Robert Cecil
39. Winifred Lady Howard of Glossop
40. Lady Margaret Charteris and Misa Charteris
41. Lady Elizabeth Romilly and Mrs. Horace Seymour
42. Lady Augustua Hervey and Mr. Charles Hervey
43. Lady Mary Hozier and Lady Frances Cecil
44. Lady Abercromby and Miss Phipps
45. the Ladies Susan and Frances Portescue
46. Lady Emma Talbot and Miss Talbot
47. Hon. Lady Cotterell and Miss Cotterell
48. Hon. W. St. John Brodrick, M.P., and Lady Hilda Brodrick
49. Hon. John and Mrs. Dundas and Lady Harriet Osborne
50. Hon. A. and Mrs. Keppel
51. Hon. Hallyburton and Mrs. Campbell
52. Miss Campbell and Misses Beresford-Hope
53. Hon. P. Stanhope, M.P., and Countess Tolstoi
54. Hon. Wallace Cochrane-Baillie
55. Hon. Mrs. W. Lowther and Miss Lowther
56. Colonel Hon. W. Colville
57. Hon. Kenneth Howard
58. the Right Hon. G. J. Goschen, M.P., and Mrs. and Miss Goschen
59. the Right Hon. Edward Marjoribanks, M.P., and Lady Fanny Marjoribanks
60. the Right Hon. Hugh Childers, M.P.. and Mrs. Childers
61. the Right Hon. George Cavendish Bentinck, M.P., and Mrs. Cavendish Bentinck
62. Sir Edward and Lady Thornton and Misses Thornton
63. Sir Gerald and Lady Fitzgerald
64. Sir James Paget, and Miss Paget
65. Sir Kenneth Matheson
66. Captain and Lady Edith Adeane
67. Mr. and Lady Mary Hope
68. Mr. Algernon and Lady Henrietta Turnor
69. General Feilding
70. Colonel and Mrs. Haygarth
71. Colonel Arthur Collins
72. Major Tredcroft
73. Mr. Howard Vincent, M.P., and Mrs. Vincent
74. Mr. Halsey, M.P., and Mrs. and Miss Halsey
75. Mr. and Mrs. F. Gordon
76. Mr. and Mrs. Edmund Johnson
77. Mr. C. Romilly
78. Miss Duff Gordon
79. Mrs. Crawley and the Misses Crawley
80. Mrs. Lloyd Wynne
81. Miss Bannerman
82. Mrs. Deichmann
83. Mr. Saunderson
84. Mr. Leonard Lindsay
85. Mr. Raglan Somerset
86. Mr. Colebrooke
87. Mr. Charles Buller
88. Mr. A. Denison
89. Mr. A. Williams Wynn
90. Mrs. and Miss Lynedoch Gardiner
91. and many others

Anthology

From the Morning Post

<quote>The Duchess of Bedford held her second reception at the family residence in Eaton-square, on Saturday night.</quote> (AfTD1887-02-21)

Bibliography

• AfTD1887-02-21 "Arrangements for This Day." Morning Post 21 February 1887, Monday: 5 [of 8], Col. 7B. . The British Newspaper Archive. http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18870221/057/0005 (accessed November 2014).